Ok, first things first. Sexual Exploitation of a minor is a terrible, terrible crime. It’s my opinion that the ramifications for this offense are severe. In my opinion, your second conviction for a sexual crime against a minor warrants life in prison.
All of a sudden this case from the AP comes to light. This guy sexually assaulted 3 girls over 2 years. Horrible? Yes. Four thousand and sixty years in prison is what the judge and jury decided.
Call me crazy, but that’s a bit excessive. A life sentence is a life sentence. Whether it’s 60 years or 100 years, a person even of 20 years of age with a 60 year sentence may very well die in prison. Depending on the crime, that’s fine with me.
But this 4,060 year thing bothers me. He was actually sentenced to that time frame. What if, just what if, something happened in the next 40 years that granted immortality to some people. It costs $19,000 per year to house an inmate in a US prison. Say, just say, he gets some potion in that grants him immortality. Multiply $19,000 x 4,000 years and you’re getting a figure approaching $100,000,000 – at the current value – to keep this inmate alive and well for his stay.
Why not save the money and just execute these people? That’s a definite, legal argument. In my eyes, why not just sentence them to 100 years in prison, and call it a day. That way they’re either too old to live or too old to move, and surely too old to fuck, so all is ok.